Molesting the dead

[Chateaubriand]

The title reads "The Forgotten Masterpiece of Victor Hugo" and it's yet another attempt by the New Age movement to motivate people to join their forces. The "Masterpiece" is the table-tapping sessions conducted in exile on Guernsey by the Hugo family and their friends.

I began tapping one of the messages with my finger and after a while I was able to conclude that the whole message would take forever to tap down - letter by letter. Now, Hugo was an impatient man - he would never have sat by the table so long for so little.

So, let this Masterpiece stay forgotten...

Got any other examples of the mumbo-jumbo people molesting the good names of the dead?

[Matabiri]

The thread title reminds me of the Bill Hicks monologue about Princess Diana:

"People keep saying to me, what have you got against Diana? She's dead, Bill. Let it go.

And I say, stop talking to me about Jesus then."

[Chateaubriand]

Good one - like it!

[Matabiri]

And Googling for "it's what" and "would have wanted" gets 2210 hits, so there's a lot of it about.

How about "The Bible according to Einstein"?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0965517691/102-3512373-8549758?v=glance&vi=contents

I can't work out from the reviews whether it's actually religious or not, though.

Rich

[Nyarlathotep]

Boy am I glad this wasn't a necrophilia thread. That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the title.

I don't know of the book you are talking about, but Ironically, Victor Hugo used mumbo jumbo to get a post humous endorsement from William Shakespeare (http://www.salon.com/books/review/2002/08/07/shakespeare/) so I guess it all works out in the end.

[Chateaubriand]

I know, and Shakespeare wasn't the only one. Jesus, Galileo, Hannibal, Napoleon and others also made social calls to the Hugo residens. Gee, if I ever go to visit the Hauteville House, I'll make sure to use the same rest room as them - think I'll get psychic powers from using such a blessed throne?

[Renfield]

Originally posted by Matabiri
The thread title reminds me of the Bill Hicks monologue about Princess Diana:

"People keep saying to me, what have you got against Diana? She's dead, Bill. Let it go.

And I say, stop talking to me about Jesus then."

Did this monologue come through a psychic like the Hugo thing? Bill did die a few years before the beloved princess.

[Matabiri]

You know when you're sure someone said something, and it fits with their persona and everything...?

Damn. And I can't find out who said it now, either.

You can prove anything with facts. And I can't remember who (first) said that, either.

[Chateaubriand]

Ahem, and you are absolutely sure Bill didn't go through a seans table?

[Corey]

The Bill Hicks bit is about John F Kennedy, actually.

He's discussing the improbability of the lone gunman senario and going off on that for a while...then he says something to the effect of "Geez Bill, it happened 25 years ago, let it go" and then the Jesus remark, which ends ends in a humorous shout of "Release the papers Pilate!".


That explains the timeline for the Princess Di thing...simple misquote. Hicks was fond of going off on tangents about notable deaths/dead people from several decades ago and then answering himself with the voice of the audience telling him to let it go and get with the times. One of my favorites is when he talks about Hendrix, does that bit then says "So Bach was a kooky guy" or something near that.

[shemp]

Originally posted by Nyarlathotep
Boy am I glad this wasn't a necrophilia thread. That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the title.



Actually, I'm quite disappointed.

[Chateaubriand]

Hey, it's a form of necrophilia, isn't it? And who knows - perhaps some of these New Age people don't need actual corpses to do their thing. Maybe we're witnessing something really kinky!?

I'm sorry - it's late here in Sweden and perhaps I had a drink to much...